On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 21:45, Bradford <[email protected]> wrote: > One of my favorite overlooked movies is director Bill Forsyth's "Gregory's > Girl" from 1981 and I was thrilled to see it released on > DVD. It has two audio channels. One has the original English audio > as released in America and the other has the English audio as originally > released in Scotland. I would go back and forth between the two and, > though both were in English with Scottish accents, the "Scottish English" > was a little tougher for my midwestern ears to sort out.
The accent from Glasgow itself is particularly impenetrable to outsiders of any sort (fairly fast and with all kinds of dropped consonants and vowel changes), and I imagine that even the version for British audiences was somewhat well-enunciated compared to what you'd hear with two locals talking to each other. I've got a lot of family in greater Glasgow, and there are a couple uncles who I have a hard time understanding at times even though I've been talking with them on an occasional basis my entire life. -- David J. Lynch [email protected] -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
